Juxtaposition of the Divine
Finding Faith in Fear
Psalm 13
2-12-08
David faced many hardships and trials in his life. This psalm hardly describes a fraction of what Kind David went through during his earlier years as an innocent fugitive.
Fear, loneliness, rejection, abandonment, defeat, a sorrow that few in this world can comprehend, betrayal… The eyes of death fixed on him – it’s gaze David cannot shake.
Yet David ends this lament with two seemingly contradictory verses:
5“But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation
6I will sing to the Lord, for he has been good to me.
This is not an optimism birthed out of the heart of man – no, it is much more. It is a clear perspective of mortal man juxtaposed with the eternality and the unfailing love of the divine.
Faith has no limit where there is an accurate view of God; and trust in him is equally limitless when that view of God is measured against man. And it is here, man in his lowest, where you will find praise in its purest and worship its best.
